Improvement in blacklng-box holders



Patented Ju1y18, 18.76.

MPEI'ERSI PNOTO-UTNUGRAPHER, WASHINGTON. D, C

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

GEORGE W. TAYLOR, OF BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS.

IMPROVEMENT lN BLACKlNG-BOX HOLDERS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 180,077. dated July 18, 1876; application filed December 9, 1875.

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, GEORGE W. TAYLOR, of Boston, of the county of Sufiolk and State of Massachusetts, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Blaclring-Box Holders; and do hereby declare the same to be fully described in the following specification, and represented in the accompanying drawings, of which- Figure 1 is a top view, and Fig. 2 a longitudinal section, of a blacking-box holder with my improvement, the cover being shown as raised up to an obtuse angle with the body of the box.

In such drawings, A denotes a shallow cylindrical box, open at top, and provided with a handle, B, to extend from it radially, as Such box also has or may have a cover, 0, hinged to it,,in order to close it, as occasion may require. Within the box, and fixed to the inner peripheral surface thereof, by the same screw to that serves to connect the handle to the box, is a bow or duplex C- spring, D, such spring being formed and arranged as represented; It is intended to embrace and hold firmly in placea blackiug-box when in the box A, the spring under such circumstances grasping the blacking-box on opposite parts of its circumference.

In the above-described blacking-box holder it will be seen that the screw a, by going through the spring at its middle, and also through the side of the box, and being screwed into the handle, performs two functions, viz., the connecting the handle as well as the spring to the box.

I do not claim a blaoking-box, having within it a bow-spring, and also having a screw screwed through the side of the box, so as to act against the middle of the spring, to force the ends of the spring against a box, and the latter up against the 'sideof the box, for,-in my box, the spring embraces the box on its opposite sides, and draws it backward against the middle of such spring; nor do I claim-a single spring, fastened at one end to the side of a case, and serving to press a blacking-box into a corner of such case, or. against two other springs, similarly arranged in such case, all being as shown in the United States Patents, Nos. 159,602, 159,167, and 129,137.

. Iclaim The combination of the box A, duplex C- spring D, handle B, and screw a, all arranged as set forth.

GEO. W. TAYLOR, Witnesses:

R. H. EDDY, J. R. Snow. 

